Day: February 1, 2018

Saw this old wardrobe on the side of the road and had my son drag it home for me. Took a few months before I got around to it, but replaced the broken mirrors with wood panels painted with black chalkboard paint and added a couple shelves. A lick of bright, splashy paint, and Grammy’s Pantry is born. The grandsons approved and freely help themselves. As grandchildren should! Total cost of less than twenty dollars and another thing that I should, but don’t want to, let go!

 

 

Twice-loved is the birth child of too much stuff – too much stuff in my head, too much stuff in my house, and this terrible inability to “let go” in all things.

So…..   in an attempt to clean house and mind, I am looking for a new home for all this ‘stuff’.  Wonder how much I’ll actually get rid of.

I sometimes envy those who ‘clean house’ with such ease. Everything gets thrown out. Broken or chipped, throw it out. Doesn’t work, throw it out. Too big, too small, throw it out. Just plain bored with it? Throw it out!

I don’t want to throw it out. I don’t want to let go.  I look at X and I see Y.  That’s not necessarily a good thing because I can’t always invest the time needed to turn X into Y and then, even when I do ….

Beautifully broken… imperfectly perfect.  Life would be so incredibly simple if we could all embrace this simple truth. I’m trying. Truly! But it’s a constant challenge for sure!

Fifteen years ago, to recycle two pieces of glass, I had my friend make me a coffee table.  In packing away my Christmas decorations, I came across the old table in a corner of the shed. I dragged it inside, dusted it off, had a colleague cut me two wooden inserts. A coat of paint, a home-made stencil and voila! Twice-loved!  So much so that it’s here in my living room.